MacBook Pro Overheating [FIXED]?

Yea you should probably go back to samsung.

Thanks for the tip.

After battling this for a long time, finally solved!

My device is a 15" MBP, mid-2009, Unibody, Core 2 Duo 3.06 gH, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB HD @ 7200 RPM, OSX 10.8.2

I use smcFanControl, and consider about 150 degrees at 3,000 rpm pretty normal

However, I'd see it climb well over 200 and speed up to almost 6,000 rpm -- and get really hot to the touch -- whenever I did either of the following:

• Access flash based websites
• Run iPhoto

I changed one setting, and am now running relatively cool again:

> System Preferences > Energy Saver > Graphics: Better battery life

(Previously it was set to "Higher performance")

Thanks.

Hi All,

I have same problem on my macbook 13'' (white). most of the time it's overheat and going to sleep mode when i am watching videos.

but in System Preferences > Energy Saver > Automatic Graphics Switching option is not exist.

can some help

Dear Joni,

I agree about the product defect. I am using a MBP, 15" late 2011 model. Just 16 months after i purchased it my graphic card was spoiled. I dont use it for gaming, just light things like word processing, candy crush, movies, facebooking etc. But it happened due to the overheating problem. I heard many people with the same model have the same problem (spoiled graphic card) and it is all due to overheating.

Hey! Umm, i dont have the option of automatic graphic switching. I have a 13" Mac book pro.. Its the mid 2013 version.. So it probably is the latest one.. Any idea of how to fix the issue?

The 13inch MBP won't have this option since they only have one graphics card.

My MBP fan was constantly running at high speed and the case was extremely hot after being on just a few minutes browsing the web. After checking the System Activity Monitor, it tuned out Google Chrome Worker was hogging 100% CPU usage. After force quitting the app, the fans instantly slowed down and I could eventually put the laptop back on my lap without using a tray underneath it! I hope this helps some of you out!

Thanks a lot for your input.

very helpful

I don't have google chrome worker but I do run the chrome browser on my mac

thanks again

some personal best practices: turn screen lumi down to 5 bars, whenever possible

unplug as soon as the mac is charged, dont leave it charging from morning to night

My 2011 MacBook Pro just started overheating after just a couple of minutes-- The culprit was my Carbonite running a backup. I had switched it from "Lower Priority" to "Backup" and that was causing it to hog the CPU. Switched it back to Lower priority and heating issue resolved. Hope this helps someone.

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Nearly identitcal story to nscamuffa, has anyone found a solution to the slightly older mac book pros (mine is 15") on Snow Leopard doing this? It came with SL, I never upgraded to Lion because I heard so many people had problems with it, the inside has been completely replaced when this was under warrenty so it's mostly new (probably cheaper...) inside, not running anything like Carbonite that could slow it down significantly, stayed on Snow Leopard because I had a few friends who ended up downgrading back to SL when they went to Lion.

I can't change the energy saving solutions in mine because it does not have them.

These are the specs:

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,4

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: MBP53.00AC.B03

SMC Version (system): 1.49f2

This morning I woke up and tried to turn it on - nearly burnt my hand when I touched the top left corner, I wasn't even using it (I didn't turn it off, just put it into sleep mode before bed)

Thing is, I'm a PhD student, I NEED my computer to survive, every time it's been sent away it's come back with a note 'we couldn't replicate the problem so we cleaned it' and charged £50 for their time.

Any help would be appreciated, I need this computer and can't really afford another one... 😕

Help!

I added smcfancontrol www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol and it seems to have solved the problem. My macbook never overheats anymore and I've been using this for about 3 months now. I also had a problem with my macbook freezing for no apparent reason that I thought was related to overheating but obviously wasn't (because it continued to happen) and I added insomniax and that seems to have worked around that problem too. This is my 5th macbook and I have to say - the most trouble plagued model yet. It is a mid 2012 model I bought from the Apple store in early 2013. 13" Macbook Pro, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3

running 10.8.5. Good luck.

Thanks - my only concern is there seem to be a lot of complaints about performance of the macbooks when I scan the community posts about this software... I'm concered about that? I don't want to create new problems with my macbook shutting down...

I know this is rather late respose to your 2012 post, but how did you reset back to Snow Leopard?

I'm so tired of my MacBook Pro (2008 2.33 Ghtz w/4GB ram & 500GB HD) overheating.

Side Note:

I agree with another poster who said Apple clear seems to be ignoring the issue or doing this on purpose as I just had a similar overheating/battery depletion issue with my iPhone 4s -- thank God they AT&T game me $200 trade in.

Appreciate your help!